the purpose of "wild" as opposed to captive bred is that when your breeding fish they tend to get inbred and the gene pool so to speak becomes very shallow.the dna for all resistence to disease is the same because everyfish came from the same "adam and eve". so while you might think that a wild would be more prone to sickness it actully is more resistent. and if you breed your wild caught with your captive bred the gene pool becomes bigger. a good subject to look at is the silver arrowana. no one knows why the have "eye droop" all they know is asians dont catch it and they have never found a wild arrow with it. with all the breeding done captivly now the silver arrows gene pool is getting shallow. umbre is anouther. you can no longer import these fish and there are only about 2 really large scale breeders that breed them in the us. im interested to see what happens to them in the near future. anyway i hope i have answered your question i know i kinda shot all over the place.Gr8KarmaSF said:
